A senior trade official in the U.S. administration says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s current strategy to “antagonize” U.S. President Donald Trump is certainly impacting negotiations around the review of the North American free trade deal.
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Rick Switzer made the comments on April 22 during a conversation with the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank.
Switzer said Canada and certain other countries have chosen to make their disputes with the United States “personal,” to their detriment.
“I think Carney has made it personal. I think it’s political malpractice for the prime minister of Canada to pit, politically, himself against any president,” he said….